Headlight attachment for automobiles.



H. L, HUBBARB, EIEADLIGHT ATTACHMENT POR AUTMOBILES.

AYPLIGATIOH FILED Mum, 1914.

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' wheels of automobiles.

UNITED STATES TATENT onnion.

HENRY LEWS HUBBARD, 0F CLEVELAND, GHI-O.

HEADLIGHT ATTACEMENT FOR AUTGMOBILES.

Application filed 21e? 19, lem.

To dil whom 'it may Concern Be it known that l, Hema' L. H'UBBARD, a. citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, in the eonnty ol' {joy-ahoga and Stute ot'lhio. have made :in Improvement in Headlight Xttziehments for Automobiles`v of which the following is a specilication.

My invention is en improvement in the class ont heed-light attachments for Automobiles in which the head-lights are pivoted and operatively connected with the steering mechanism so :is to turn laterally with the front wheels of the machine. and thus et all times dirent the -rziul's of light in the direction the meohine is going.

'llie details ol? construction, arrangement. end operation of parte ire as hereinafter described. and illustrated in theiiceompenving' drawing, in Which.-

ligure l n perspective vien showing my invention as applied to the front portion o'r' nn automobile. Fig. is :i foce or front view-:i portion being shown in seetionof the radiator and head-light of an automobile. Fig. il is a vertical cross serftion, on the line 3-3 or" Fig. Fig. l n plan view of a portion or the 'means for shiftingy the head-light.

In l? the steering tie-rod ordinarilyY employed for connect-ing the pivoted journals of the front To this tie-rod is bolted firmly a. forli if. of the vertical arm or rod 2, Whoseupper end is connected by a collar 3 end Chains Ll with the rear fork 5 of a horizontal rod 5 that extends forward through an opening 6 in the radiator?, and is connected at its front end with the pivoted headlight 8.

Speccaton of Letters Patent.

. l. and 2. the numeral l indicates- Patented 5311.5. 191.5.

semi nu. 839,544.

rfhe head-light is arranged in the openinnI l5 in the. radiator, as heet shown in Fig. 3, unil is: provided at its upper and under sides with gudgeons or pivots 9, so that it muy he turned on them on a vertical a tor shifting its' light laterally, or to the right or left. The collar 23 is ipplied tigli 3l" to the vertical forked rod o and the chain l connect said collar with the rear ends: o the fork 5.

It will non7 he appuient. that. when :he tie-.rod l is shifted lo itudinally for idjnsting the front wher4 rit different angles. as required for guiding the vehicle., the vertical rod 2 also shifted bodily with the tie-rod. While still retaining its vertical posi tion. unil consequently forked end Fi of the horizontal rod 5. is swung also to the right or left. which has the fiin'ction of tur-ning the heed-light on its pivots 9, correspondingly. Thus.r the rays of the headelight are directed straight ahead. or laterally more or le. corresponding to the atliustment of the tie-rod l.

l claime- 'l`he coz'obinlition with an automobile radiator having :in opening extending through its upper portion from front to rear, of a head-light pivoted in such openingr :it the front thereof. a horizontaljrod connected with the head-light und extending rearward through the opening, n verticellrod attached to the rear end of Said Horizontal rod, and a steering rod for the front vvheels of the machine, Said vertical roclfbeiitg attached thereto, as described.

HENRY LEV/TIS HUBBARD. Witnesses i GUSTAVE SPBTH, Dun) N. GIBSON. 

